At Home in the AMERICAN BARN highlights a selection of barns renovated for residential use. My design was to restore and refurbish a classic 1800s banked barn in Solebury, Pennsylvania.
I incorporated large areas of glass at the exterior walls to reveal the unique heavy timber-peg & mortise construction within. From the outside, you can see this distinctive basic assembly of barn framing- known as ‘bents’. The renovations and additions to the barn expressed the Owner’s program “to provide interesting spaces, a sense of excitement for guests by the juxtapositions of materials and objects, and to continue offering a compatible exterior setting to the rural Bucks County countryside.”